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Patent GB-619504-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to inkers for printing presses
IPC: B41F31/30
Filed: 1945-11-02
Abstract: 619,504. Printing-machines. HARRIS-SEYBOLD CO. Nov. 2, 1945, No. 29096. Convention date, Sept. 5, 1942. [Class 100(ii)] Inking-apparatus.- In inking - apparatus for the plate cylinder 41 of a printing-machine, e.g. a lithographic offset machine, comprising an ink fountain 43, forme rollers 36-39. two storage rollers 15, 16 each in contact with one or more of the forme rollers and a series of rollers for delivering ink from the fountain to the storage rollers, an ink path is formed between the rollers 15, 16 including an ink-transmitting roller 24 and at least one distributing roller 32, 33 and 34, 35 between the transmitting roller and each of the storage rollers, the fountain 43 being disposed on one side of a plane containing the axes of the roller 24 and the cylinder 41, and the roller 32 or 33 associated with the forme roller 36 first contacted by a given point on the surface of the plate cylinder being disposed on the opposite side of the plane. Damping-rollers 44, 45 may apply water etc., to the plate, the rollers 32, 35 being tripped away from the rollers 15, 16 respectively, in succession, to interrupt inking to allow for the period when a gap 80 in the plate cylinder interrupts transmission of moisture and so tending to dilute the ink. The supply to the roller 32 is by way of a messenger roller 42 and rollers 12, 30, 13, 31 and 14. The rollers 12-16 are reciprocated axially by a wobble gear, or by a straight gear and a wobble plate, on the shaft of the roller 24, bevelled flanges on the wobble gear engaging similar flanges on gears on the rollers 12-16: the latter are of equal diameter and at the same distance from the axis of the roller 24, or of different diameters the distances being varied accordingly. The rollers 34, 35 are mounted at each end in vertical and inclined slots 53, 55 respectively in a bracket 50 attached to a side frame of the machine by a pin 51 on the bracket riding in a vertical slot in the frame to allow the roller 35 to be tripped. The rollers 322 33 are mounted in slots 65, 67 in a similar bracket 61, a pin 62 on which engages loosely a hole in the side frame, whereby springs 73 may push the bracket to the right to engage always the roller 14; springs 78 connecting the brackets maintain the rollers 33, 34 in contact with the roller 24. Tripping is effected by circumferentially-adjustable cams 76, 77 adapted to rock levers 59, 71, the ends of which engage screws on the brackets. Specification 619,505 is referred to.
Patent GB-727513-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to aircraft controls
Inventor: PAGE FREDERICK WILLIAM
IPC: F15B13/14
Filed: 1952-11-18
Abstract: 727,513. Aircraft controls. ENGLISH ELECTRIC CO., Ltd. Nov. 6, 1953 [Nov. 18, 1952], No. 29168/52. Class 4. A feel simulator for aircraft controls of the kind in which the pilot's control member is coupled to the piston or cylinder of a hydraulic mechanism by a linkage having a dead-centre attitude so that the piston or cylinder is moved always in the same sense relative to its associated cylinder or piston, respectively, against the hydraulic pressure regardless of the sense in which the pilot's control member is displaced from the position corresponding to the dead-centre attitude of the linkage, is provided with spring means tending to restore the linkage to its dead-centre attitude and the pilot's member to its corresponding position with a force substantially lower than the forces normally applied by the pilot and resisted by the feel system, but larger than the values which these forces have at very small deflections of the pilot's control member. As illustrated in Figs. 2 and 3, a double lever 11 connected to the pilot's control is pivoted on a common axle 14 with a hydraulic cylinder 13, the piston 16 of which is connected by rod 18 and axle 19 to links 15 pivoted at their other ends to lever 11. The cylinder 13 is fixed to a yoke 20, the position of which can be varied to pivot cylinder 13 about axis 14 for trim purposes. The space between piston 16 and cylinder 13 is connected to a source of hydraulic pressure dependent on the pitot pressure. The lower end of the yoke 20 carries an axle 24 bearing a bridge piece 23, each end of which is connected by a coil spring 22 to a lug on yoke 20. An extension of lever 11 mounts a roller 26 adapted to contact bridge piece 23, the surface of which is shaped so that a small deflection of lever 11 lengthens one or other spring 22, but further displacement of lever 11 does not further rock the bridge piece. Screws 28 threaded into bridge piece 23 and abutting the yoke are used for initial adjustment.
Patent GB-1045688-A (GB)
Title: Air-cooled steam condenser
IPC: F28B1/06
Filed: 1963-07-23
Abstract: 1,045,688. Air-cooled surface steam condensers; heat exchange elements. F. HERMANN. July 23, 1963 [July 24, 1962], No. 29168/63. Heading F4S. An air-cooled steam condenser for use with steam-operated power engines comprises a plurality of heat exchanger blocks 8 formed from staggered rows of tubes of rectangular cross-section and containing internal fin members 3, Fig. 1 (drawings not shown), firmly secured to the inside of the tube walls 2. There are passages 6, Fig. 2, between adjacent tubes, the ends of which are sealed by flat iron bar members 6<SP>1</SP>, and channels 5 between adjacent rows formed by spacer bars of iron 4 or of plastic material 7. The blocks are positioned to form, in plan view, a square or polygon and are tilted to form alternately V and inverted V-shaped spaces 10, 10<SP>1</SP>, Fig. 3; respectively each having sealed transverse front and rear walls 9, the latter spaces are also sealed by a roof-like member 13. All spaces 10 are interconnected at the top through a compartment 20 and steam from a distribution line is passed into each space through pipes 11 to flow past baffles 14 through the passages 5 and into spaces 10<SP>1</SP> from where it is exhausted through apertures 21. To prevent ice forming the gases from passages 5 are directed by plates 17, 18 arranged in V configuration to the additional heat exchange elements 15 comprised of tubes similar to tubes 1. The lower ends of plates 18 are immersed in the condensate in the flash tank 19 which extends beneath all blocks 8 and which has overflow pipes 24 connected to a condensate escape line 25. Situated on the roof covering the condenser is an aerial fan 22, Fig. 4, which draws cooling air through the tubes 1 and 15 and exhausts vertically through a diffuser 23.
Patent GB-234142-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in warp stop motions for looms for weaving
IPC: D03D51/00
Filed: 1923-11-20
Abstract: 234,142. Butterworth, F., and Mather & Platt, Ltd. Nov. 20, 1923. Stop-motions, warp.-In stop-motions of the type wherein on the breakage &c. of a warp thread, a weight wire &c. normally suspended thereby falls and stops the movement of a reciprocating notched bar coacting with a fixed notched bar, the reciprocating bar n is operated by lever mechanism w, p', s from a shaft a, which is normally oscillated through a doublepart lever comprising a lever f loosely mounted on the shaft furnished with a spring-pressed plunger h engaging a flattened part e of a collar d fast to the shaft. The lever f is operated by a link m, a connecting rod o and a crank pin p or eccentric on the tappet shaft or on a shaft driven therefrom, and it normally oscillates the shaft a, but can oscillate without moving the shaft when the free movement of the reciprocating notched bar is interfered with. The shaft a is connected by lever mechanism 2, 3 to a bell crank lever 4 pivoted at 5 on the stopping and starting handle 7 and furnished with a stud 8 that normally misses a plate 9 fixed on the lay, but is operated thereby, whereby the loom is stopped, when the movement of the shaft a is stopped.
Patent GB-742626-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to emulsifying agents
Filed: 1953-10-23
Abstract: The invention comprises salts of alkylaryl sulphonic acids containing an alkyl radical of 8-16 C atoms, with polyoxyethylene ethers of amines containing a hydrocarbon of 12-20 carbon atoms and 3-30 oxyethylene groups.  The neutralizing bases may have the formula <FORM:0742626/IV(a)/1> where R is the hydrocarbon and m and n are each at least 1, the sum of m+n being from 3-30.  In examples, sulphonated dodecyl benzene is neutralized with a polyoxyethylene lauryl amine containing 15 oxyethylene groups, or 5 or 30 such groups, or with a rosinamine containing 10 such groups; hexadecyl toluene sulphonic acid is neutralized with tallow fatty amine having 20 oxyethylene groups, octylaniline having 16 such groups, hexylnaphthylamine having 12 such groups and laurylamine having 3 such groups; sulphonated octylnaphthalene is neutralized with soya fatty amine having 15 ethylene groups.  Many other amines having polyoxyethylene groups are specified including myristyl, stearyl, polymerized olefine, alkylphenyl, coconut fatty, dihydro and dehydroabietyl, cotton seed oil and decylnaphthalene amines; other alkyl aryl sulphonic acids specified include alkyl xylenes and naphthalenes.  The products are surface-active agents.
Patent GB-266437-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in apparatus for making anhydrous metallic chlorides
IPC: C01G1/06
Filed: 1925-11-23
Abstract: 266,437. Wohlers, F. T. Nov. 23, 1925. Resistance furnaces. - In the production of metallic chlorides, the rotary reaction chamber into which the chlorine is introduced is made of fused silica and is uniformly heated. The solid charge is fed into a funnel 48 attached to a feed elbow 49 having an agitator 60 in a feed chamber 47 so that vapours passing through the elbow 49 pass into the top 50 of the chamber 47 and thence by an exit 52 into a condensing-chamber 53. The feed chamber 47 and the condensing chamber 53 are mounted on a car 54 running on tracks 56, the car being held against the reaction chamber 8 and its stuffing-box 46, by a spiral spring 59. The silica reaction chamber 8 is surrounded by a resistance coil 9 coated with fireproof cement 10 and then covered with more cement as at 11 and set in firebricks 12 in an iron tube 13 which is closed at its ends by asbestos plates 14 and brass heads 15 to which the terminals of the resistance coil are attached, the current being taken through brush contacts 16 as the reaction chamber rotates. The lower end of the reaction chamber 8 opens into a chlorine chamber 30 through a stuffing-box 33 secured to the chlorine chamber. The projecting end of the chamber 8 is covered by an asbestos coating 31 in a metal cylinder 32. The chlorine chamber has a waste material container 44 which can be shut off by a slide so that it can be discharged without allowing escape of chlorine. Similar waste material containers 58 are provided in the condensing chamber 53. If necessary the feed chamber 47 may be heated to prevent condensation therein. In a modification, Fig. 5, the reaction chamber is connected directly to the chlorine chamber by a flexible connection 66 and connecting piece 67 suitably mounted so as to allow the reaction chamber to rotate.
Patent GB-1417896-A (GB)
Title: Flat weft feeder for tape weaving machines
IPC: D03D41/00
Filed: 1973-06-21
Abstract: 1417896 Weft measuring and storing, shuttleless looms DU PONT OF CANADA LTD 20 June 1974 [21 June 1973] 29604/73 Heading DIE A weft measuring and storage device for feeding weft tape to a shuttleless loom comprises a variable speed motor 17 driving the weft package 11 by way of a flywheel 18, clutch 19 and brake 20, a photocell device 21, 22, which scans the diameter of the package 11 and acts as a coarse control for the speed of the motor 17, an air jet 13 to feed the weft as a loop 14 into a storage tube 15 and a second photocell device 23 which scans the loop 14 and acts as a fine control for the speed of the motor 17. The device is arranged to declutch and brake the motor 17 upon loom stoppage. In Fig. 3 air from jet 38 is arranged to feed weft into the storage tube only when weft is being supplied, by rotation of the package, to prevent fibrillation of the weft tape.
Patent GB-294813-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to apparatus for splitting or cleaving slate blocks
IPC: B28D1/32
Filed: 1927-11-05
Abstract: 294,813. Williams, H. G. Nov. 5, 1927. Percussive hand-tools.- A flat power-driven chisel 14 for splitting slate is guided between spring mounted flat bars 10 separated by washers 11 and carried by a frame 9 which rests on the slate block A with the aid of springs 13. The chisel is prevented from turning by lugs 19 which rest in a cross slot in the retaining sleeve 20.
Patent GB-732780-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus employing induction heating for producing welded tubing
IPC: B23K13/02
Filed: 1951-12-18
Abstract: 732,780. Induction heating. CRAWFORD, T. J. Dec. 18, 1951 [Jan. 11, 1951], No. 29662/51. Class 39 (3). [Also in Group XXII] In producing welded tubing wherein opposed spaced edges of a longitudinally extending seam in a tubular metal blank are brought together and are heated by a high-frequency induced electric current flowing generally circumferentially in the blank in the region in advance of the initial point of junction of the edges, the point of junction lies beyond the effective limit of the current inducing field. In an embodiment metal strip S is passed through forming rolls 3 to a welder 5 incorporating a high-frequency coil 7. The coil 7 of rectangular section copper tube which may be silver plated for very high frequencies is water cooled. A field concentrating element which may also be silver plated is arranged within and insulated from the coil 7. The element comprises two longitudinally split tubes 53, 55, Fig. 6, brazed &c. together and having end walls to forma hollow C section coil cooled by water circulated by conduits 59, 60. A frusto-conical end 63 extends beyond the coil 7 and an insulating plug 61 in the other end has a guide hole 62 for the tube. A small portion 67 serves to concentrate current in this region. Frequencies of 2800-500,000 or even 10,000,000 may be employed. Specification 377,655, [Group XXII], is referred to.
Patent GB-925434-A (GB)
Title: Electrical snap-action switch
IPC: H01H5/00
Filed: 1961-08-17
Abstract: 925,434. Fluid actuation of switches; snapaction switches held set and freed mechanically. A. ECKERFELD. Aug. 17, 1961 [Aug. 20, 1960], No. 29700/61. Class 38 (5). A snap-action switch comprises a lever 1 non-positively actuated by a moving member 6 and connected to a contact arm 2 by means of a snap-action spring 4, the lever 1 being held in the closed position of the switch by a catch 7 which is released by the moving member 6 when this has withdrawn beyond a position corresponding to the dead-centre position of lever 1. The latch 7 causes full contact pressure to be maintained up to the instant of breaking. The moving member 6 comprises a push-rod actuated by a pressure-sensitive diaphragm in a continuous flow electric water heater. Flow of water through a construction 17 causes a pressure difference which is applied, through passages 20, 23, to opposite sides of the diaphragm 21 which operates the switch to energize a heater coil 13. As the switch operates the spring-loaded catch 7 drops into place. If the flow ceases the pressures equalize and the diaphragm relaxes. Springs 26, 28 return the rod 6 and when it moves beyond a position corresponding to dead-centre a cam 8 releases the catch and the contact arm 2 snaps to the off position.
Patent GB-648061-A (GB)
Title: Traverser for railway wagons
IPC: B61J1/10
Filed: 1948-11-16
Abstract: 648,061. Railway traversers. MATEMINE SOC. ANON., and LECQ, J. Nov. 16, 1948, No. 29730. [Class 104 (ii)] A traverser for railway wagons, serving a group of three or four parallel tracks comprises a first traversing carriage 5 of a length corresponding to the aggregate width of two tracks, e.g. 1 and 2, and the space between them, and arranged to run between two abutments 7, 8 on a low-level track 6, the carriage 5 providing support for a track or runway extending in the same direction as the track 6 and carrying a traversing carriage 9 fitted with a section of track rails extending in the direction of the tracks 1-4 so that it can be aligned with any one of them in order to transfer a wagon to one of the other tracks. Fig. 6 shows a modification wherein one track 3 is at a higher level than tracks 1 and 2, and the base of the carriage 5 is sloped to correspond with the slope of a traversing track 6, the upper portion providing a horizontal track for a carriage 9. A wagon can thus be traversed from either of tracks 1 or 2 to the other, or, by elevating the carriage 5 on the incline, a wagon can be run either to or from track 3. Movement of carriage 5 may be effected by a piston in a compressed air cylinder 12.
Patent GB-934575-A (GB)
Title: New dyes of the 1-amino-4-arylaminoanthraquinone-2-sulphonic acid series
Inventor: GRASER FRITZ
IPC: C09B1/34
Filed: 1961-08-18
Abstract: The invention comprises dyes of the formula:-<FORM:0934575/IV(a)/1> in which Y is a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic acyl radical of a monocarboxylic acid free from sulphonic acid halogen alkylamide groups and chloro- or bromo-methyl groups and Z is a cation.  The dyes are made by reacting a compound of the formula:- <FORM:0934575/IV(a)/2> with an acid halide A-Y where A is chlorine, bromine or fluorine. Radicals mentioned for Y are benzoyl, benzoyl substituted by chloro-, nitro-, methyl-, methoxy-, trifluoromethyl-, N-methyl sulphonamide, N-ethyl sulphonamide, N:N-dimethyl sulphonamide or pyrrolidinosulphonyl groups and naphthoyl.  Examples are given. The dyes dye and print linear polyamides and polyurethanes in blue shades.
Patent GB-654343-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to electric fuses
IPC: H01H85/36
Filed: 1948-11-17
Abstract: 654,343. Fusible cut-outs. REYROLLE & CO., Ltd., A., and HEDLEY, J. W. Nov. 17, 1948, No. 29897. [Class 38 (i)] [Also in Group XXXVII] In a fuse of the spring-separated type, the element comprises a pair of supports 10 each carrying a terminal 16 and an insulating sheave 20 round which the fuse wire 15 passes at least once and is secured to the terminals, the sheaves being substantially D-shaped and arranged with their flat faces abutting, springs 13 separating the supports on rupturing of the fuse wire. The latter is received in grooves in the sheaves which may be covered over or tunnels may be formed in the sheaves. Separation of the supports 10 may control the opening of a circuit-breaker.
Patent GB-331776-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to soldering apparatus
IPC: B23K1/16
Filed: 1929-10-03
Abstract: 331,776. Electrische L÷t - und Schweiss-Ges. Aug. 30, 1929, [Convention date]. Transformers.-The longitudinal seams of tins are soldered by an iron f attached to the ends of a transformer secondary e which is displaceable relatively to the rest of the transformers so that pressure can be applied to the work without the necessity for cables. The secondary, which is mounted on the wire c between two primary coils d, is pressed down by a foot-lever g through rods k, b and lever i and is returned by a spring m. Two secondaries each mounted between a pair of primaries may be used for soldering two articles simultaneously.
Patent GB-1041509-A (GB)
Title: A grease
IPC: C10M169/06
Filed: 1965-07-15
Abstract: Greases comprise a lubricating oil, an oleophilic clay, and a metal carbonate in which there is a metal of Group Ia, Ib, IIb, IVb, VIIa or VIII of the Mendeleeff Periodic Table.  The oil may be mineral or synthetic, the latter including aliphatic dicarboxylic acid esters such as bis(2-ethylhexyl) sebacate, and aliphatic silicates, fluorates, and phosphates.  The clay may be a montmorillonite (of Na, K or Li), Wyoming bentonite, or hectorite modified with an imidazoline and/or an amino-amide formed between certain fatty acids and polyethylene polyamines.  Typical of many specified imidazolines are 4-octadecyl-, 2-b -hydroxyethyl-4-undecyl-, and 1-diethylenediamino-2-hexadecylimidazolines. The carbonates specified are naturally occurring ones such as Ankerite, Malachite, and Rhodochrosite.  The greases may also contain one or more of the following additives:- (1) an inorganic sulphide (e.g. molybdenum disulphide, an amorphous antimony tri-, tetra- or penta-sulphide, or mixtures thereof), (2) a lead naphthenate, (3) an imidazoline and/or amino-amide of the type used to modify the clay, but present in addition to those associated with the clay, (4) an aromatic amine (examples given), (5) sodium or potassium nitrite, and (6) terpene-phosphorus chloride reaction products.
Patent GB-312566-A (GB)
Title: A new or improved flexible ventilator sheet for motor-car side curtains or other uses
IPC: B60H1/24
Filed: 1928-10-19
Abstract: 312,566. Newton Vitreo - Colloid (1928), Ltd., J. M., and Newton, J. Oct. 19, 1928. Wind and like screens.-A flexible ventilator sheet for use as a motor-car side curtain &c. comprises an apertured main sheet a of flexible and transparent material and a flexible disc or sheet b which is similarly apertured and is rotatably or slidably attached to the main sheet in such a manner that surface contact between the two sheets is maintained irrespective of any curvature of the fain sheet. In the constructions illustrated the disc b is rotatably mounted on the main sheet by means of a rivet c, and apertures d, e are provided in the two sheets. The sheets are maintained in contact by means either of a number of members g, Fig. 1, or a retaining ring i, Fig. 4, attached to the main sheet and overlapping the edge of the second sheet or disc. The members g are of metal and the ring i is flexible. and may be built up of celluloid &c. An annular strengthening ring h may be cemented or moulded on the edge of the disc b. The sheet b may be of oblong shape and adapted to slide in retaining members g on the main sheet.
Patent GB-435652-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to focusing devices for photographic copying apparatus
IPC: G03B27/32
Filed: 1934-10-24
Abstract: 435,652. Photographic copying- apparatus. SHULL, D. P., 240, South Union Avenue, Los Angeles, U.S.A. Oct. 24, 1934, No. 30533. Convention date, Dec. 19, 1933. [Class 98 (i)] The apparatus comprises a lens mounted adjustably in a lens holder connected with a bracket, a focusing means mounted on the lens holder and movable into focusing alignment with the lens axis for adjusting the lens to correct focus, and a camera holder having a camera body attached thereto pivoted to the bracket and alignable with the lens axis for taking a photograph. As shown, the vertical plate 12 of the bracket 11 is secured to a supporting structure 16 by a screw 15. Extending from the plate 12 is a tapered arm 17 having a clamping screw 19. A lens mounting plate 22 and a camera mounting plate 23 are secured by a double hinge 21 to the bracket 11. The plate 22 has a central threaded opening 28 in which is threaded a ring 31 on the lens. The lens has a focusing tube 32 operated by the knurled ring 33. Pivoted to the plate 22 by a hinge 41 is a focusing attachment 36 containing a ground glass screen. The hinge 41 is provided with a latching projection for use when the lens is employed in horizontal position. The camera mounting plate 23 has a circular opening in which the threaded ring 56<1> of the camera is secured by means of a threaded ring held in the opening by means of a coiled spring. The camera is closed by means of a pivoted plate 56. A recess is provided in the lens plate 22 to accommodate the plate 56 when the camera is swung downwardly and the plate 56 swung outwards from the camera.